Following up to correct my previous email: the query plan did not really change - we see Bitmap Heap Scans even before the upgrade. Therefore, the query plan doesn't seem to have changed after the upgrade.

However after the upgrade it seems that those queries are doing more disk IO (increased index_blocks_read in that table).

Thanks in advance


On 9/16/25 3:25 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
Hi,

On September 16, 2025 7:57:54 AM EDT, "Core Studios Inc." 
<corestudios...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

We noticed a sustained increased in IO Wait of read queries after upgrading 
from 13.13 to 13.21. Eventually, we narrowed it down to a spike in 
index_blocks_read of a certain table where Bitmap Heap Scans do happen.

Do you think that this change (i.e. removing the optimization) could be what 
caused this regression?
You're not providing enough details for us to answer that question. We'd need 
an explain verbose for the query.

Greetings,

Andres


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